Health and welfare

Health and welfare

1. Obesity leads to more sickness absence
2. Breast cancer mortality considerably down
3. High participation rate breast cancer screening programme
4. One and a half percent health insurance defaulters
5. More older people consult medical specialist and physiotherapist
6. Age and overweight prime risk factors for diabetes
7. Medical end-of-life decisions shorten life by four days
8. Alcohol consumption youth and over-65s at the same level
9. Older mums breastfeed longer
10. Specialists see more patients
11. Fewer women on the pill
12. More women die of lung cancer
13. Majority give up smoking around the age of forty
14. Care spending up by 4.4 percent
15. Social position affects hospital admission rate
16. Some 241 thousand people have no medical insurance
17. More cyclists killed on Dutch roads
18. Labour productivity of general hospitals lagging
19. More manufactured cigarettes, fewer hand-rolled cigarettes smoked
20. Dutch have not improved their lifestyle
21. Home care 2005: fewer clients, more hours of care provided
22. Drowning rate for young children continues to fall
23. Sustained reduction in fatal work-related accidents